House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 18 Nov 2008 (pt 0021)

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Ambulance Services: Motor Vehicles

David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many emergency response vehicles are operated by each NHS ambulance trust in England; and what the ratio is of such vehicles per 1,000 of the population. [236989]

Mr. Bradshaw: Information on the number of ambulances operated by each NHS ambulance trusts is not held centrally.

Ambulance Services: Per Capita Costs

David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much was spent per person on the provision of ambulance services for (a) each ambulance trust in England and (b) England for the latest period for which figures are available. [236988]

Mr. Bradshaw: The information requested is listed in the following table:

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Trust	Expenditure (£000)^{( 1)}	Population^{( 1)}	Spend per person (£)^{( 1)}
North East Ambulance Service	78,542	2,564,486	30.62
North West Ambulance Service	208,305	6,898,343	30.19
Yorkshire Ambulance Service	152,688	5,174,762	29.50
East Midlands Ambulance Service	132,242	4,368,025	30.27
West Midlands Ambulance Service	145,886	5,381,845	27.11
East Of England Ambulance Service	191,112	5,661,034	33.76
London Ambulance Service	232,451	7,556,930	30.76
South East Coast Ambulance Service	132,772	4,271,166	31.08
South Central Ambulance Service	105,714	4,032,749	26.21
South Western Ambulance Service⁽²⁾	n/a	(2,893,487)	n/a
Great Western Ambulance Service (GWAS)	66,193	2,289,205	28.91
England⁽³⁾	⁽³⁾1,445,905	⁽³⁾48,198,545	⁽³⁾30.00
⁽¹⁾ Expenditure details from Annual Financial Returns of NHS Trusts, 2007-08. Population data based on ONS Population Statistics database (mid year 2007 based on 2001 census) for equivalent strategic health authority regions. GWAS population figures calculated using primary care trust population data from Gloucestershire, South Gloucestershire, Bristol, North Somerset, Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire. ⁽²⁾ Expenditure data for 2007-08 for South Western Ambulance Trust not yet received. ⁽³⁾ Average based on total trust expenditure and total population figures, all excluding South Western Ambulance Trust.

Aortic Aneurysm: Screening

Dr. Iddon: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) if he will publish a timetable for the introduction of the NHS abdominal aortic aneurysm screening programme; [236464]

(2) when he expects the NHS abdominal aortic aneurysm screening programme to cover all parts of England; and if he will make a statement; [236465]

(3) which NHS trusts have been selected to participate in the first round of pilots of the abdominal aortic aneurysm screening programme; and when they will begin their work; [236466]

(4) what estimate he has made of the number of lives which will be saved in a year following the introduction of the NHS abdominal aortic aneurysm screening programme. [236467]

Ann Keen: Six early implementation sites have been identified and will start screening by summer 2009. The sites are West Sussex (Royal West Sussex NHS trust), Leicester (University Hospitals of Leicester NHS trust), Gloucester (Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS foundation trust), South Manchester (University Hospital of South Manchester NHS foundation trust), South Devon and Exeter (South Devon NHS Foundation Trust and Royal Devon and Exeter NHS foundation trust) and South West London (St George's Healthcare NHS trust). It is anticipated that full national roll out will be achieved by the end of March 2012; work is under way with strategic health authorities to plan for this.

Once fully implemented it is expected that the screening programme will save approximately 700 lives within the first 10 years of screening rising eventually to 1,600 per year.

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Arachnoiditis

Mr. Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what research his Department has carried out into possible links between arachnoiditis and depression. [235655]

Dawn Primarolo: None.

Both the Department’s National Institute for Health Research and the Medical Research Council welcome high quality applications for support into any aspect of human health, and these are judged in open competition with other demands on funding.

Cancer: Death

Dr. Gibson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment he has made of trends in mortality rates of (a) common cancers and (b) rarer cancers; and if he will make a statement. [Official Report, 12 May 2009, Vol. 492, c. 3MC.][232840]

Kevin Brennan: I have been asked to reply.

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.

Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated November 2008:

As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking what assessment has been made of trends in mortality rates of (a) common cancers and (b) rarer cancers. (232840)

The attached table provides the age-standardised mortality rates in England, by sex, for the period 1971 to 2005, for all cancers combined, and for each cancer for which this information is readily available.

A detailed description of trends in cancer incidence and mortality over the period 1950 to 2003 is available in the 'Cancer Atlas of the United Kingdom and Ireland, 1991-2000’, chapter 2 (pp 7-38), entitled 'Geographical patterns in cancer in the UK and Ireland'. This publication is also available in the House of Commons library, and from the Office for National Statistics’ website via the following link:

www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/Product.asp?vlnk=14059

An article examining trends in cancer in the UK and constituent countries over the period 1993-2004 for all cancers combined, and for the four most common cancers, was published in the Health Statistics Quarterly, volume 38, pp 33-46. This is available in the House of Commons library, and from the Office for National Statistics website via the following link:

www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/article.asp?ID=2007&;Pos=1 &ColRank=1&Rank=1

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Age-standardised mortality rates per 100,000 population by cancer site and sex, England, 1971 to 2005^{( 1)}
Rate per 100,000 population
Sex	Site	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979	1980	1981	1982
Male	All cancers	284	286	286	288	284	289	285	286	287	285	284	281
	Lung	107	109	109	110	107	108	108	108	106	104	101	100
	Colorectal	34	34	33	34	33	34	33	32	32	31	31	30
	Stomach	32	31	31	30	30	29	28	28	27	26	25	24
	Bladder	13	13	13	13	12	13	13	13	12	12	12	12
	Pancreas	12	12	12	12	13	12	12	12	13	13	12	11
	Leukaemia	8	7	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8
	Oesophagus	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	9	8	9	9	9
	Prostate	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
	Brain	4	5	4	5	4	5	5	5	5	5	5	4
	Lip, mouth and pharynx	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
	Kidney	4	4	4	4	5	5	5	5	5	4	5	5
	Non Hodgkin's lymphoma	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	5	5	5	5	5
	Larynx	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
	Myeloma	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	4	3	4	3
	Hogkin's disease	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1
	Testis	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
	Melanoma	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2
Female	All cancers	175	175	176	178	178	181	179	180	182	183	182	182
	Breast	39	39	40	39	40	40	40	40	40	40	41	41
	Colorectal	26	26	26	26	26	26	25	25	24	24	23	22
	Lung	19	19	20	21	22	22	23	23	24	25	25	26
	Stomach	15	15	14	14	13	13	12	13	12	12	11	10
	Ovary	13	13	12	12	12	13	12	13	12	12	12	12
	Cervix	8	8	8	7	8	8	7	7	7	7	7	6
	Pancreas	7	7	7	8	7	8	8	7	8	8	7	8
	Uterus	5	4	5	5	4	4	4	5	4	4	4	4
	Leukaemia	5	5	4	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
	Oesophagus	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
	Bladder	3	3	3	4	3	4	3	4	4	3	4	3
	Brain	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
	Non Hodgkin's lymphoma	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
	Myeloma	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	2	2	3
	Kidney	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
	Lip, mouth and pharynx	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
	Melanoma	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	2	2	2
	Hogkin's disease	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
	Larynx	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	1

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